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http://www.prolexic.com/knowledge-center-white-paper-ddos-cyber-attacks-global-markets.html?cvosrc=3rdParty.NationalPositions.WP-Markets | A rising number of recent DDoS attack campaigns have targeted the financial industry. As a result, financial institutions are anxious, and governments are considering the national security implications associated with digital assaults against the critical economic infrastructure provided by financial firms, including trading platforms. Are DDoS cyber attackers trying to manipulate stock prices and trading markets? The DDoS experts in PLXsert think so. Learn more about this security threat in these excerpts from the Prolexic white paper.

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Malicious actor: L0ngWave99
• Responsible for Operation Digital Tornado
• Attack campaign ran for 3 months in early 2012
• Hit US securities and commodity exchanges
• Claimed to be motivated by political ideals
• Supported the Occupy Wall Street movement
• Harshly criticized policies of the U.S. government
and international finance institutions

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Malicious actor: Al-Qassam Cyber Fighters (QCF)
• Responsible for Operation Abibil
• Attack campaign ran for a year and a half – from
January 2012 through August 2013
• Hit American financial firms, U.S. securities and
commodities exchanges
• Used the itsoknoproblembro DDoS toolkit
• Believed to be located in the Middle East
• Promotes pro-Palestine and anti-Western rhetoric

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What’s next?
• Insurgency groups migrate their tactics online
– They adopt hacktivist iconography
– They target American and Western organizations
• Financial industry works to be better prepared for
future DDoS cyber attacks
• Attacks spread to other industry verticals,
wherever the most damage can be inflicted
• Organizations that are hit while unprepared will
suffer losses of public and investor confidence

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About Prolexic
• Prolexic Technologies is the world’s largest and
most trusted provider of DDoS protection and
mitigation services
• Prolexic has successfully stopped DDoS attacks for
more than a decade
• Our global DDoS mitigation network and 24/7
security operations center (SOC) can stop even the
largest attacks that exceed the capabilities of other
DDoS mitigation service providers